Practitioner Course

Legal Pitfalls in Telemedicine

Understand the regulatory landscape, including risk, fines, malpractice exposure, and potential loss of license.
Format

Online Course
1 lessons

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

1 hour total

Presenter

Scott Rattigan

About this course

Telemedicine offers healthcare providers new opportunities for financial, time, and location freedom. But with opportunity comes responsibility and a host of legal risks. Practitioners who fail to understand the evolving regulatory landscape risk fines, malpractice exposure, and even loss of license.

In this webinar, healthcare attorney Scott Rattigan, JD, founder of Functional Lawyer and author of The Practice of Telemedicine: A Complete Legal Guide for Licensed Healthcare Professionals, will guide you through the most pressing legal pitfalls in telemedicine for 2025 and beyond. Scott has helped over 1000 clinicians safeguard their practices and navigate compliance issues. Drawing on this experience, he will explain the legal essentials that every natural healthcare practitioner must know in order to safely and confidently grow their telemedicine practice.

This presentation is somewhat specific to North America, although does have considerable value to clinicians in all countries seeing international patients.
What you receive:
  • A personalised certificate of completion including continuing education hours
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions

From this course you will learn

  • Legal requirements for providing care via telemedicine, both in-state and across state lines
  • How each state defines the practice of medicine and why it matters
  • The rules and risks of remote prescribing, including upcoming DEA changes
  • How HIPAA, parity laws, and malpractice insurance apply to telemedicine
  • Licensing pathways, including special telemedicine licenses and interstate licensure compacts
  • How to avoid common myths and misinformation about telemedicine law

What's in this course

Your Presenter

Attorney Scott Rattigan, JD

Scott Rattigan, JD, is an attorney who specialises in providing legal support and guidance to integrative and functional medicine providers. As the founder of Functional Lawyer, he addresses the unique legal and business needs of this community. His expertise is rooted in firsthand experience, having helped his wife establish her own functional medicine practice.

Mr. Rattigan's work focuses on empowering clinicians with the tools and education necessary to build legally sound practices, ensuring they can grow with confidence and focus on patient care. He is the author of The Practice of Telemedicine: A Complete Legal Guide for Licensed Healthcare Professionals and also hosts a podcast that covers legal, business, and mindset topics for health professionals.
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